Desktop Hardware Incompatibility List.

[schmidtbag]

1. AGP 4x Video card TV tuner combo
2. ATI
3. Radeon 7500 All-In-Wonder
4. No 3D or TV support of any kind no matter what you do

[rjr1049]

1. Bluetooth Keyboard
2. Microsoft
3. Keyboard Elite for Bluetooth
4. It is impossible to connect this keyboard in 8.04. It is supported in 7.10. This has been posted to the bug list wiki.

[N3um0rin]

Active XP-Pen tablet

it only right clicks and the pointer wont move..i have a windows driver cd for it but the windows cd wont work and wine almost never works...can you guys make a driver for it..or tell me how to..=\

[Mikamura]

1. Mainboard + Graphic Card
2. ASRock + Nvidia / ATi
3. 775i65GV
4. Can only run in text mode with alternate disc install. When goes to graphic mode, screen goes blank like open the screen but not open the computer. Only happened when insert a graphic card into AGP slot, when use on board chipset, it can run normally.

[lushden1988]

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj276/Shipcat/cpuz.jpg?t=1213886516

are my sound card and graphics card incompatible i have asked this in a new thread but have not heard anything back.

I am getting no sound through headphones, and i can't get the desktop effects to work or use my graphics card for anything


My laptop is a Hi-Grade VA250D

My motherboard is fic.

I have followed everything in this forum and now have lost sound completely i really need a step by step guide on what to do.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/184314

I am totaly *&#^$&@)!

Please someone help me im dual booting with Xp SP3

[blackdalek]

1)Type Of Hardware
Notebook running Ubuntu 8.04

2)Hardware Maker
Toshiba

3)Hardware Model
Tecra S1

4)Known Issue
Bluetooth not detected or working.
SD memory card reader not working.
TV-out not detected or working.
IRda port not working
Everything else appears to work.

[ahbart]

Card Reader delivered as part of a Medion pc model 8808. This card reader is part of the 5,25" front bay, including usb ports, audio, video and firewire. The card reader does not work at all!

1)Type Of Hardware
Card reader

2)Hardware Maker
C-Media

3)Hardware Model
CM-220
lsusb: ID 0d8c:5200 C-Media Electronics, Inc.

4)Known Issue
The card reader part does not work at all.

[Trog]

1. Router
2. Netgear
3. DG834G V2.0
4. DHCP will complete but the wired network will not work or will work intermittently after a reboot of the router. Works OK with IPV6 disabled on the desktop.

[shonwein]

Asus M2N-MX SE PLUS motherboard.

nForce 430/Geforce 6150se . Just 640*480 resolution. No drivers fix yet this.

[gamer625]

1.Gateway m-1625 laptop

2.AMD-Turion 62 X2 mobile technology TL-60

3.ATI-Radeon X1270

[linuxnube]

Running Hardy 8.04 on a Fujitsu T2010U.

Cannot get stylus working on the Wacom touchscreen.

Thanks.

[Casper Hansen]

Laptop:

Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo L1310G:

Ubuntu 8.04

Well, the CPU fan won't work so the system gets very hot and overheats. Also the graphic card (ATi Express 200 or something) is very lousy in Ubuntu.

[Richard9795]

Dell Latitude C640
Intel Easy PC Camera
Camera shows every thing in a diffrent color in any app (eg. my face is green):confused:

[Cyhawk]

Version: Ubuntu 8.04 (all)
Name: x2Gen 19" Widescreen Monitor
Model: MW19R
Problem: According to a few posts, this monitor has a mistake in its table. It does not work at the native resolution of 1440x900 at anything other than 60hz refresh rate. Playing with xorg.conf will get it work with ONLY the nvidia drivers installed, however not correctly. (GDM (Blank until inside gnome), Videos (improperly scaled to 1024x768), Games (same as videos), anything requiring 3d acceleration will function improperly)

What's needed: Some sort of force resolution/refresh rate utility for both gnome and GDM =)

Windows has the same problem, until you change the refresh rate to 60hz, then it works perfectly fine.

[cd\click!?]

1)Type Of Hardware
motherboard

2)Hardware Maker
XFX

3)Hardware Model
GeForce 8200

4)Known Issue
wont make it to the desktop from a live cd. loading bar appears does its job for a few then disappears. all other hardware worked on the previous motherboard, a gigabyte geforce 6100.

[heiko_s]

1)Type Of Hardware: Laptop
2)Hardware Maker: Dell
3)Hardware Model: Latitude D600
4)Known Issue: Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy - no out of box support for wireless router connection, no wired connection possible.

[grss1982]

Ubuntu 8.04.1

1)Type Of Hardware: Motherboard
2)Hardware Maker: Inno3D
3)Hardware Model: SL7N73VM Link: http://www.inno3d.com/products/motherboard/SL7N73VM.html
4)Known Issue: Ubuntu can only detect the built-in sound (Realtek ALC883 HD Audio Codec), LAN (Marvell 88E8056 10/100/1000Mbps Ethernet Controller) & Video (GeForce 7050). There are at least a dozen "Nvidia Corporation Unknown Device" readings when I use lspci.

BTW, the mobo is based on the GeForce 7050 PV/nForce 630a chipset.

[dreadmeat]

1)Type Of Hardware: CPU
2)Hardware Maker: intel
3)Hardware Model: 3.06Ghz HT pentium 4
4)Known Issue: xubuntu 8.04 very *unstable with hyper threading enabled, to the point of being unusable.
xubuntu 7.1 has no such issues that i observed.

i disabled hyper threading in my award bios and now my system works very well.


*thunar, firefox & epiphany freeze, xfce-session-logout can't be found, I/O error sr0 on reboot, unable to mount or burn cd/dvds reliably the list goes on...
but i will not.

[soxs]

REMOVED, useless..

[ERName]

1)Type Of Hardware: Laptop
2)Hardware Maker: Asus
3)Hardware Model: M50VM-A1 (probably -B1 as well because the hardware is identical except for the CPU speed)
4)Known Issue: Ubuntu i386 doesn't even install, x64 does BUT...

NO Compatibility (nothing works) for the following:
-Network Controller: Realtek, unknown model number
-Wifi Card: Some sources say Atheros AR928X, Vista identifies it as Intel 3945ABG. There is a sticker on the card itself that says Atheros, and the Vista drivers on the CD that Asus packaged with the computer lists itself as Atheros. (I'm inclined to believe that it's an Atheros AR928X)
-Sound: I believe it's Realtek integrated, but I'm not sure.
-Fingerprint Scanner: Unknown
-Webcam: Asus, unknown model

VERY LIMITED support for:
-Keyboard: Standard US key layout works, No hotkeys (somewhat expected)
-Touchpad/Mouse Buttons: "Media" and backlight functions are NOT available. The model of this touchpad is not known. Standard Mouse functions are available.
-Video: Nvidia 9600M GS... Standard drivers seem to work, but no advanced functions (higher than 800X600 resolutions) are available. No Desktop effects can be enabled, etc. (Video has never worked out of the box for me in Ubuntu).

Completely Working:
-Basic power functions (And that's IT!)

Summary: Asus M50VM-A1 (and -B1) do NOT come close to working out of the box. Without network support, nothing can be forced to work either.

Praying for: 8.10 to fix these problems (or at least the network issues!!)

UPDATE: The standard linux kernel that comes with 8.10 alpha 3 (I don't know the version number... 2.6.24?) fixes the wired network problem. However, installing a kernel update to the next version (2.6.25?) breaks it again.

[hellknight_mnd]

Hardware :- Printer
Model :- HP 1018 LaserJet
Problem :- Ubuntu or any Linux distro doesn't detects it accurately... i mean they show it but can't print.. the cure to this solution is download a 10 MB software from HP which then downloads more software when run. The print quality after running all these softwares is not that good!!

[caf@omen.com]

1)Type Of Hardware Audio Card
2)Hardware Maker Creative
3)Hardware Model Audigy 2
4)Known Issue[/B] The mixer "capture" tab is blank
except for a check box for mic gain. One would expect to
see items such as "aux 2", "line", or even "mic" with
sliders.

Audio playback and volume control work as expected.
This is with the current 386 Ubuntu Studio with
all the install items selected.

Some other distros show the Audigy 2 inputs but Ubuntu Studio is the
only distro that seems to run xlinrad at 96000 capture rate.

The same 386 Studio and xlinrad work perfectly on an Intel
dg33bu motherboard at 96000 and 16 or 24 bits.

[twinkel1961]

Laptop Acer Extensa 5220 type 201G08Mi Mfg Date: KS 080424

WLAN CARD:
04:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01)
(needed manual workaround with ndiswrapper)

IRDA PORT:
nsc-ircc 'PnP Device (NSC6001)' /sys/devices/pnp0/00:0a

NO SOUND AFTER Hibernate and standby

[DraconPern]

Canon CanoScan LiDE 70. Plug in. doesn't work.

[Der_Idiot]

1) Built in Gigabit Ethernet controller
2) Marvel
3) Yukon 88E8057
4) Upon install ubuntu installer cannot detect network adapter, and lspci detects it but lists it as 'unknown'.

This is on Gateway's new P-7811 series laptop.

[Hyper Tails]

Me webcam

U-cam ne878

doesen't show any picture on the computer........
which sucks :(

[dornik]

Type Of Hardware - Laptop Audio

Hardware Maker - Sigmatel

Hardware Model - - SigmaTel STAC9752

Known Issue - No sound through either speaker or headphones.

Ubuntu Version - 8.04 Hardy

[johnehowe]

I receive a BusyBox error (Initramfs) when trying to run from CD or install 8.04. I know the hardware is good so it has to be an incompatibility issue.


The hardware is a Dell PowerEdge 600SC minitower (Small shop server hardware) However, I have been using it as a XP desktop workstation for a few years now.



Dell PowerEdge 600sc
2400 Mhz Intel Processor
533 Mhz Bus
L2 cache: 512
640 MB Ram

[johnehowe]

8.04 is incompatible with a Dell PowerEdge 600sc minitower server. Marketed by Dell as a small shop server. I have been using it as an XP Desktop for years, and was wanting to convert it to a Ubuntu WS, but no-go......

Dell PowerEdge 600sc
2400 Mhz Intel Processor
533 Mhz Bus
L2 Cache: 512

[quack]

1) Scanner
2) Canon
3) CanoScan LiDE 600F
4) Not detected & not supported in Ubuntu 8.04. Can be driven by a Windows guest OS in VirtualBox 1.6.6

[SomedoodIV]

Hareware Type: sound card (PCI card)
Hardware manufacturer: Creative Technology
HW model: Fatil1ty X-FI pro series (PCI edition)
Problems: Card is not even seen or detected (or used, since i have no sound at all) by Ubuntu 8.04 HH, cannot even install Creative's Linux drivers, i get the error in the terminal "no supported hardware detected". Running 64x Ubuntu, tried both increments of the drivers (32x and 64x) with no success.

[celem]

I have loaded Ubuntu 8.04 on my Biostar TF8200 A2+, also Mint and a few others trying to get it to work correctly. Sabayon Linux works the best on this motherboard. Ubuntu and Mint share the same video problem, including Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex Alpha 6. If you load the proprietary drivers as prompted by the little pop-up icon you will trash the system, requiring a reload. It screws up X so that the screen is just bands of colors. If you load the patch directly from nVidia as directed by nVidia's instructions, you will also trash the video. If you load the patch directly from nVidia but using the instructions found in the forum (See: http://tinyurl.com/5yf56h), the graphics works perfectly until the first update from Ubuntu when the video will again be trashed. I gave up and loaded Sabayon which handles the video and almost everything else perfectly. I say almost because Sabayon and EVERY Linux distribution, including Ubuntu, fail to properaly handle the ALC888S audio with the nVidia chipset as implemented on the Biostar TF8200 A2+. The result with every distribution is audio with scratchy noises and reverberation. I had to disable the on board ALC888S and install a sound card.

[nDrewPJ]

Hareware Type: TV-tuner
Hardware manufacturer: AverMedia
HW model: AverTV Hybrid NanoExpress
Problems: The tuner is not detected, only listed with "lspci" on 2.6.27 kernel. The AverMedia programmers said that they won't even try to make liux drivers for it.

Could somebody say where I can post some kind of request for support of this device?

[PGHammer]

8.04 is incompatible with a Dell PowerEdge 600sc minitower server. Marketed by Dell as a small shop server. I have been using it as an XP Desktop for years, and was wanting to convert it to a Ubuntu WS, but no-go......

Dell PowerEdge 600sc
2400 Mhz Intel Processor
533 Mhz Bus
L2 Cache: 512

Does this server have integrated (onboard) graphics? It also (if it does not have onboard graphics) may require proprietary graphics for best performance (that is still an issue iwth some ATI/nV/Intel graphics chipsets).

[pennybright]

Dell Latitude C640
Intel Easy PC Camera
Camera shows every thing in a diffrent color in any app (eg. my face is green):confused:

Happened to me too...Have you find the solution other than buy new camera?

[shwick]

1)Type Of Hardware - Motherboard
2)Hardware Maker -Gigabyte
3)Hardware Model - ep45-ds3
4)Known Issue - won't boot, can't install

This model won't work with kernel versions less than 2.6.25, Hardy uses 2.6.24, in Intrepid it should be 2.6.27 so Intrepid should run fine. There could be a way to start with custom boot options or messing with RAID, but i haven't tried that.

[dharmabum4732]

1) Motherboard
2)Asus
3)P5E3 Premium WiFi-AP @n Edition
4)The integrated wireless and Raid don't work

Tried on both ubuntu 8.04 (x32 and x64) and 8.10 (x64)

[yooden]

Mainboard Intel DP35DP
CPU Intel E5200
NIC integrated Intel 82566DC
NIC Intel Pro 1000 PCI
GPU Gainward Bliss 9600GT
Plextor PX-716AL
Some cheapo DVD reader

Ibex amd64 installation freezes, live-CD option freezes upon reaching the Desktop.

FYI, I also tried two other options:

Lenny amd64 installation fails because neither the opticals nor any NIC is found.
FreeBSD 7.0 net install freezes during package download.


The Gainward is actually my second choice, before that I tried a Matrox G550 DH. Neither me nor my (pretty knowledgeable) dealer could get the DP35DP/Matrox combo even to the boot screen.

[TrendRat]

Matrox AGP Parhelia 128 video card
Ubuntu 8.1

Worked fine under 8.04
I seem to be in an infinite loop once I upgraded to 8.10, can't get the video to display.

"Ubuntu is running in low graphics mode. Your screen, graphics card and input device settings could not be detected correctly. You will need to configure these yourself."

Click OK and get "What would you like to do?" choices are: 1)run in low graphics mode (which doesn't work when I select it, won't boot) 2) reconfigure graphics (which also does not work, as it just flashes the screen and wipes out my selection) and 3)Use your backed up configuration (result is same as 2 above).

My gawd, how tough is it to get a silly video card to work on a system that previously ran flawlessly?????

So the machine won't boot. Can't restart, as it sometimes instructs me to do. Only hard reboot works, after which the machine either hangs or throws me back into the infinite loop.

[fifthconspiracy]

Motherboard Incompatibility:

Asus P5Q-EM motherboard (Intel G45 chipset) on Intrepid 8.10

Sound does not work with an Nvidia Card in the PCI-E Slot, Remove the Nividia card and switch to on-board video and the sound works.

[D.D.R.]

Graphics Card
ASUS EAH3650 (ATI Radeon HD3650) - AGP 8x
Ubuntu v8.10 (intrepid)

When booting (after several screen flashes) I see a message saying the graphics card has failed to initialize. In order to get to the desktop I have to run in low-graphics mode.

[PGHammer]

ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe (likely also applies to all other Intel 875P/ICH5R chipset-based motherboards with onboard Intel PRO/1000CT gigabit Ethernet) - due to a known quirk with the e1000g module (also effects the e1000 module in the Ubuntu 2.6.27-7-generic kernel used in 8.10), the onboard Intel gigabit Ethernet adapter must be disabled during installation or operation with Intrepid Ibex (this bug is *not* present in Hardy Heron; therefore, I must recommend that Hardy Heron users with this motherboard, or any motherboard with onboard Intel gigabit Ethernet to avoid upgrading to Intrepid Ibex (when clean-installing Intrepid Ibex, remember to turn the onboard Ethernet off).
However, I can also report that the freshly-minted (just today, in fact) Creative X-Fi Linux driver *does* work in Intrepid Ibex (in fact, I'm using it), so the X-Fi (all variants except XtremeAudio) can be removed from the Hardware Incompatibility List for Intrepid Ibex.

[PGHammer]

Hareware Type: sound card (PCI card)
Hardware manufacturer: Creative Technology
HW model: Fatil1ty X-FI pro series (PCI edition)
Problems: Card is not even seen or detected (or used, since i have no sound at all) by Ubuntu 8.04 HH, cannot even install Creative's Linux drivers, i get the error in the terminal "no supported hardware detected". Running 64x Ubuntu, tried both increments of the drivers (32x and 64x) with no success.

There are new drivers for this series of card (literally new; dated today), that work with at least 8.10 32-bit; I'm using them myself.

Download them from http://support.creative.com. (They are a 32/64-bit unified driver set.)

[PGHammer]

Mainboard Intel DP35DP
CPU Intel E5200
NIC integrated Intel 82566DC
NIC Intel Pro 1000 PCI
GPU Gainward Bliss 9600GT
Plextor PX-716AL
Some cheapo DVD reader

Ibex amd64 installation freezes, live-CD option freezes upon reaching the Desktop.

FYI, I also tried two other options:

Lenny amd64 installation fails because neither the opticals nor any NIC is found.
FreeBSD 7.0 net install freezes during package download.


The Gainward is actually my second choice, before that I tried a Matrox G550 DH. Neither me nor my (pretty knowledgeable) dealer could get the DP35DP/Matrox combo even to the boot screen.

This is part of a known issue with all versions of the Intel gigabit Ethernet controller (especially onboard gigabit); however, it *only* affects Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex; 8.04 (Hardy Heron) is not affected. It's a kernel module-level bug that affects the 2.6.27 series of kernels with varying degrees of severity; unfortunately, Intrepid Ibex got hit the hardest, as no version of any Intel gigabit adapter or controller (either integrated or card-based) is usable. Your options are really threefold:

1. Disable/remove your Intel gigabit Ethernet and replace it with another Ethernet adapter. (In my case, I went with a 3Com 3C905-TX.)

2. If running Hardy Heron, avoid upgrading to Intrepid Ibex.

3. If an upgrade is in the cards, consider another distribution (such as openSuSE 11.0/11.1, which has patched their kernel against the issues I spoke of).

[VictorR]

Ubuntu Intrepid 8.10
USB ADSL modem SpeedTouch 330 rev.4.
The modem worked fine until I upgraded to Intrepid. It doesn't work at all with new kernel 2.6.27. I can neither see USB devices with "lsusb" (it hangs), nor navigate to /dev/bus/usb folder (Nautilus hangs).
The only solution I have found so far is to boot the kernel from Hardy (2.6.24).

[j0nny55555]

Re: Desktop Hardware Incompatibility List.
1)Type Of Hardware - RAID Card
2)Hardware Maker - Promise
3)Hardware Model - SuperTrak EX8650 SATA/SAS
4)Known Issue - Installs, Boots, Yet after about 800 MBs to 1.5 GBs of data have been copied or the system has ran for about three days, the kernel panics. Here is my typed version of the kernel panic. There is a bit more to the message as shown by my "..." and it involves too many registers to try to type it all out, but if someone wanted me to, I'd be happy to take a photo with my digi and send it.

tty1 (screen - console)
Call Trace:
<IRQ> [<ffffffff8815349d>] :stex:stex_mu_intr+0xdd/0x500
...
Kernel panic - not syncing: Aiee, killing interrupt handler!
kern.log
Nov 7 23:18:32 mars kernel: [277144.326658] stex(0000:06:00.0): aborting command
Nov 7 23:18:32 mars kernel: [277144.326664] sd 8:0:0:1: [sdc] CDB: Write(10): 2a 00 09 13 f1 df 00 01 00 00
Nov 7 23:39:35 mars kernel: [278405.068848] stex(0000:06:00.0): aborting command
Nov 7 23:39:35 mars kernel: [278405.068856] sd 8:0:0:1: [sdc] CDB: Write(10): 2a 00 0e 01 38 87 00 01 00 00
Nov 8 01:36:02 mars kernel: [285380.651948] stex(0000:06:00.0): aborting command
Nov 8 01:36:02 mars kernel: [285380.651955] sd 8:0:0:1: [sdc] CDB: Write(10): 2a 00 09 67 46 ff 00 01 00 00
Nov 8 04:36:33 mars kernel: [296193.672356] stex(0000:06:00.0): aborting command
Nov 8 04:36:33 mars kernel: [296193.672363] sd 8:0:0:1: [sdc] CDB: Write(10): 2a 00 26 c3 85 cf 00 01 00 00
Nov 8 04:51:27 mars kernel: [297086.325160] stex(0000:06:00.0): aborting command
Nov 8 04:51:27 mars kernel: [297086.325167] sd 8:0:0:1: [sdc] CDB: Write(10): 2a 00 1f 31 a9 ef 00 01 00 00

[sc0tt10]

Nvidia GeForce 6100 integrated graphics chip

when I tried to install 8.10 it installed ok but when it attempted to boot up after the splash screen the display just changes to a thin line on my 17' TFT Monitor, yet with 8.04 it works a treat.

[dhay]

Hello

Recently I've acquired an Asus X50GL/F5GL. I tried to install ubuntu 8.10 but it tries to start running and stop in the middle of the live-session(leaving the screen in black). I tried to install ubuntu 7.04, 7.10 and 8.04. Now i'm running with 8,04 but I had to install it for 4 times and I did it with the dvd version at the end(it always fails saying that it couldn't read some blocks).

When I had it installed I updated and it stop running. So I put the ubuntu cd and I ran it in text-mode and put the option "recover X". After that it runs another time.

The main problem is that it doesn't recognise the wifi, neither the graphical chipset, nor the sound-card. It happens in all the distributions I tried(how ubuntu doesn't run I tried to install debian(sarge, etch...), knoppix, fedora,mandriva and centOS(all of them in the latest versions excepting knoppix that was the ver 5.3.1). Some of them like knoppix and debian broke when try to install the dvd driver(The same happens when I try to test the laptop with Hiren's boot, I can't do anything because none of the drivers included is able to manage the dvd device).

I sent the automatic Test of Hardware included in ubuntu 8.04, but I preffer to explain here what happens, because I suposse I will not be the unic with this problem(But if you know that somebody installed ubuntu 8.10 in a laptop like this , please, tell me and I will go fast to change it to the store(but I tested the memory, the hard disc(with two programs) and I did some global test with sisoft Sandra and it seems to run ok).

The web page of this laptop is:

http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=5&l2=24&l3=477&l4=0&model=2575&modelmenu=1

Here the computer characteristics:

http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?modelmenu=2&model=2575&l1=5&l2=24&l3=477&l4=0

In my case is:

Pentium T3200 (2.0ghz dual core).

Thanks for your attention :)

dhay